BOUNTIFUL, adj. Full of bounty and generosity; very liberal.

BRING UP, v. To nourish and take care of from childhood to man's estate.

BUILD, v. To erect an edifice on a foundation. Used in a spiritual sense of believers, or of God's Church, which is built upon "the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the Chief Corner Stone," Eph. ii.

BURY, v. To lay in the grave; to place a dead body in the ground, out of sight. Used of believers being by profession at Baptism buried to the world and its sinful pursuits, and rising again to a life of holiness and righteous

ness.

CALL, v. To summon or invite, to name; to invite sinners to repentance; with God for its subject to worship or pray to.

CALLING, sub. In common life, any occupation, profession, employment, or trade, in which sense it is used, 1 Cor. vii. 20. In theology generally, God's summons to repentance. "God's calling," says the Oxford Catechism, "is either common, or special and effectual. Common calling is that whereby a nation, city, or family, are called to the knowledge of the means of salvation. Special, or effectual calling, is that whereby God calleth His elect, out of their natural state of sin, unto holiness and salvation, through Christ Jesus; and that, ordinarily, by means of the Gospel preached, Matt. xxii. 14; Ps. cxlvii. 19, 20; Rom. viii. 30; 1 Pet. ii. 9; 2 Thess. ii. 13, 14."

CARNAL, adj. Belonging to, or connected with, the flesh; fleshly, sensual. Carnal lusts are those lusts of the flesh which are opposed to the spiritual tendencies and inspirations of the soul, and which require to be kept under in order to a holy walk and life. See Rom. vii., and Gal. v. 17.

CHARITY, sub. Commonly almsgiving, but more properly love in its most comprehensive sense; love to God and man; that love which is a reflexion of the Divine image in our own souls; for the Godhead is love, 1 John, iv. 5.

CHEERFULLY, adv. Readily and with a willing mind; not

grudgingly, or as of necessity, but heartily as of love, 2 Cor. viii.

CHRIST, sub. This word signifies the Anointed One, and is our Blessed Lord's official designation, applied to Him because of His being anointed by the Spirit to the threefold office of Prophet, Priest, and King to His Church. The Hebrew word "Messiah" has the same signification.

CHURCH, sub. By this word we denote the entire family of professing Christians throughout the world; including not only true believers, but "all who profess and call themselves Christians," though they be false professors and hypocrites, deceiving alike others and themselves. This company constitutes the outward and visible Church of Christ; and that Church is called "Catholic," or "Universal," because not now, as formerly, confined to one people only, but having members in all lands; and it is called "Holy," because called with a holy calling; because holy by profession, if not by practice, and in truth holy in comparison with the world of pagans; because its officers and ministrations are holy and separated from common things; and because its end is to train up a holy people unto the Lord. The term " Church" is sometimes applied to portions of this company, as to the believers in a particular house, or city, or country; but in the Collects, as in the Creed, it is used in its largest and most extended sense, as given above. The "Church of the First Born" consists of that mystical or hidden body of Christ, which is called in our post-Communion Service "The blessed company of all faithful people."

CIRCUMCISION, sub. The ordinance or rite by which children and proselytes were introduced into the Jewish Church prior to the coming of Christ. This rite was taken away by Christ, and Baptism introduced in its stead, as more in accordance with the character of the dispensation of which He was the founder.

CLEAN, adj. Free from filth, pure; free from the guilt and pollutions of sin; free from mental as well as bodily impurities; having a clear conscience.

CLEANSE, v. To free from dirt and filth; to free from the guilt of sin, and make pure in the sight of God. This is done by the application of the Blood of Jesus Christ; by

sprinkling of that blood, as it were, on the heart and conscience of the believer, Heb. ix. 13, 14; 1 John, i. 7.

COMFORT, v. To console or cheer the mind when in trouble or sorrow; as God does sinners when mourning for sins, by assuring them of pardon and forgiveness. See Isa. xii. 3, and xl. 1, 2.

COMFORTER, sub. One who comforts or consoles. One of the titles of the Holy Spirit; who is so called because He supplies comfort to the soul when in trials and troubles, by directing them to the only source of happiness and peace, God in Christ, reconciling sinners to Himself.

COMFORTLESS, adj. Without comfort; deprived of comfort. Such are all those who lack Christ's gracious presence in the soul.

COMMAND, v. To order; give charge to; appoint; direct to be done. As the centurion did to his servants, Matt. viii. 8, 9.

COMMANDMENT, sub. Anything ordered or appointed; used generally for the Commandments of God; and especially for that portion of them which form the Ten Commandments of the Law, Ex. xx. To believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, 1 John, iii. 23; to frequent the house of God, Heb. x. 25; to study the Scriptures, John, v. 39; to be diligent in prayer, Luke, xviii. 1; to love one another, 1 John, iii. 23; these are equally commandments of God, and require to be loved and kept by us all, as reverently and obediently as the Decalogue itself.

COMMUNION, sub. Intercourse and fellowship together in the same body or company; participation in the same pursuits; sharing each other's joys and sorrows, hopes and fears. Thus do Christians hold communion with one another, and shew forth the oneness of their faith and hope.

CONFESS, v. At times to own or acknowledge before God and man that we are Christ's followers, see Matt. x. 32; Rom. x. 9; 1 Tim. vi. 13. But more generally to own or acknowledge sin to God; as David, Ps. li.

CONFESSION, sub. The act of confessing Christ before men; or of confessing sin to God. Confession of sin is necessary as a proof of repentance, and as a means of peace. There is no true repentance where sins are covered, Prov. xxviii. 13; and no peace of mind either, as David acknowledged, Ps. xxxii.

CONFIRM, v. To strengthen; to establish on a firmer basis than before; to place beyond all doubt, and make certain what before was doubtful.

CONFIRMATION, sub. The act of confirming or strengthening. The name of that rite of the Church wherein persons who have been baptized as infants are, after public profession of faith made, received into full communion by the laying on of the hands of the Bishop.

CONSCIENCE, sub. That spirit or inward principle in man which bears witness for God within him, and approves or condemns his actions. Of this spirit the Apostle speaks, in Rom. ii. 15; and there declares it sufficient to condemn all men, if they act in disobedience thereto; thereby making it a guide at least adequate to teach us the first principles of right and wrong, though not alone equal to the task of conducting us to Heaven.

CONSTANCY, sub. Firmness; steadiness; unvarying and unaltered continuance in a certain state or course.

CONSTANT, adj. Firm, unwavering, unchanging; not fickle and irresolute, or given to frequent change. CONSTITUTE, v. To order, ordain, appoint.

CONTEMPT, sub. Scorn, derision, the act of despising others, the state of being despised.

CONTINUE, v. To abide in the same state; to persevere; to remain unchanged.

CONTINUAL, adj. Perpetual; abiding constantly in the same state; uninterrupted by any change. God's mercy and pity are continual because they never alter or change. CONTRARY, adj. Opposed to; adverse; hostile; acting against any one.

CONTRITE, adj. Broken or bruised; generally used figuratively of the heart being broken or bruised on account of sin, i. e. being really sorrowful because of sin.

CONTRITION, sub. The act of being sorry for sin; a state of sorrow for sin manifesting itself by our acts. Contrition, as well as confession, is a mark of and essential to real repentance, for there is no true penitence where sorrow for sin is not found.

CONVERT, sub. One who has been turned from sin to holiness, from the power and service of Satan unto God. CONVERT, v. To change one thing into another, or from one state into another; but especially to turn a sin

ner from the error of his ways to serve the living God; to change an unholy being into a holy one; a child of Satan into a child of God.

CONVERSION, Sub. The act of turning from sin to holiness; the change of heart experienced by the sinner, when the Spirit of God operating thereon leads him to forsake his sins, and to seek the Lord, whereby a new creation is produced, "old things pass away" and "all things become new." Conversion is spoken of in Scripture as a creation because requiring the Creator's power, and producing a change more analogous to that than to any other work. The Holy Spirit is the agent by whom it is brought about, and the instrument generally used is the preached word.

CORNERSTONE, sub. The stone that unites and binds two walls of a building together, forming therefore the chief support and stay of the building itself. In this sense it is that Christ is the cornerstone of that spiritual edifice the temple of God, His Church; for it is on Him it rests, and by Him it is upheld continually.

CORRUPT, adj. Leading to decay; rotten; unsound; tainted. Man's nature is said to be corrupt, and so of course all the affections of that nature, because of the introduction of sin; whereby our first parents lost their purity, became subject to death, and the progenitors of a race of sinners; seeing that from a polluted fountain nothing but polluted waters can ever proceed.

CORRUPTION, Sub. The state of being corrupt; decay; rottenness. That principle in our natural bodies which tends to decay and rottenness.

CORRUPTIBLE, adj. That which is liable to corruption, susceptible of it and tending towards it; as are all the bodies of men for the reason given above. (See word CORRUPT.)

COUNT, v. To number up; to reckon as one of a number; to consider as connected with a class; to put anything to one's credit; as God our faith for righteousness, Rom. iv.

COURSE, sub. A race or career run by any one; method of life adopted or set before us for us to pur

sue.

COVET, v. To long after forbidden things; to lust for